Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.
25 Facts About Martin Wolf
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Martin Wolf's father Edmund was an Austrian Jewish playwright who escaped from Vienna to England before World War II.
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Martin Wolf recalls that his background left him wary of political extremes and encouraged his interest in economics, as he felt economic policy mistakes were one of the root causes of World War II.
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Martin Wolf was an active supporter of the Labour Party until the early 1970s.
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Martin Wolf was educated at University College School, a day independent school for boys in Hampstead in north west London, and in 1967 entered Corpus Christi College at Oxford University for his undergraduate studies.
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Martin Wolf initially studied Classics before starting the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Course.
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Martin Wolf has said that he never pursued a PhD, because he "didn't want to become an academic".
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In 1971, Martin Wolf joined the World Bank's young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974.
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Martin Wolf left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London.
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Martin Wolf joined the Financial Times in 1987, where he has been associate editor since 1990 and chief economics commentator since 1996.
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Up until the late 2000s, Martin Wolf was an influential advocate of globalisation and the free market.
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Between 2010 and 2011, Martin Wolf served on the Independent Commission on Banking.
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In 2012, Martin Wolf stated in remarks for the Financial Times that public goods are building blocks of civilisation: security and safety, knowledge and science, a sustainable environment, trust, the Rechtsstaat, and economic and financial stability.
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Martin Wolf maintained in December 2022 the government's failure to maintain real pay in the public sector had an adverse effect on recruitment and retention of staff.
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Martin Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997.
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Martin Wolf won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize in 1994.
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Martin Wolf was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by the University of Nottingham in 2006, and was made Doctor of Science of University of London, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in the same year.
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Martin Wolf is a regular participant in the annual Bilderberg meetings of politicians and bankers.
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Martin Wolf is visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy.
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Martin Wolf has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999.
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Martin Wolf has been named in the top 100 lists of global thinkers by Prospect and by Foreign Policy magazine.
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Martin Wolf is regarded as "staggeringly well connected" within financial circles.
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Martin Wolf's friends include leading financiers such as Mohamed A El-Erian; politicians such as Manmohan Singh, Timothy Geithner and Ed Balls; many leading economists; central bankers such as Mervyn King: according to Wolf, he knows all significant central bankers.
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Martin Wolf is widely regarded as one of the most influential economics journalists in the world.
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In 2019, Martin Wolf received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.